There was a bit of a problem today. And by a bit, I mean roughly the size of a small mountain, and angry, and bloodthirsty, and incredibly clever. It was made even worse because I was trying to capture it without killing it or letting it kill my people.

Luckily the dungeon that it escaped from warned me about it before it left the dungeon. Apparently, it was an experiment that one of the dungeons in my territory was working on that worked a little too well. It suddenly entered a berserk rage and started smashing everything in sight before somehow escaping into my forest, where its reckless violence continued.

The dungeon also practically begged me to return it to them alive, offering something quite compelling; a new magical plant of their own make. They guaranteed that it was something that I don't have and can't easily make. I hope that they're right, as this beast is still tearing up my forest.

The damage it is doing is minimal at best, it looks a lot more impressive than it actually is. The damage, I mean, not the beast. The beast is even more impressive than it looks. It was able to rip through my hardest mithrilwood with only a little bit of struggle, it learned faster than I could react, and it killed three of my paladins before I pulled them out. They would absolutely be able to kill it, but they were struggling to do anything less than lethal to it. Even the most potent version of Knockout Juice that they had was shrugged off easily, apparently, it is resistant to poisons.

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Really it was nothing more than an almost perfected killing machine, with some obvious flaws but few that I was able to exploit. A bit of lightning would have crippled it, but we don't really have any skilled storm mages. Luckily I was able to lead it away from population centers, and many of the trees it maimed survived the process, but people still died and trees were still killed off. And it is still going, and I have no way to restrain it. It seems to be tiring, but slowly. I have to keep it engaged and fighting constantly otherwise it will rush off towards a population center to fight something, and I can't put my attention elsewhere because otherwise, it gets bored of easily fending off my attacks and goes searching for something else to fight. I hope this new plant is worth it.

Also, it regenerates faster than I can hurt it, because of course it can. Why wouldn't it be capable of regeneration?

And I wasn't able to get any actual work done, nor was I able to take a break at all. At this point, it is going to be an endurance slugging match between me and this beast, which one of us will collapse first? Maybe I can get the dungeon that made the thing to help me out here.

It's more annoying than harmful, but it is very annoying.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.